NOOTKA SOUND. 
a rattle, and a {mall whittle, shout an inch long, incapable 
of any ie ai from oe but onehole. The rattles are, 
for the e tha oe of a a with a few 
N opportunity offered ; nor did they pilfer any 
but that eich they could convert to ufeful purpofes, and 
had a real value in their saree ; fothat they were thieves 
in the ftriMelt fenfe of the word. Amongit themfelves, 
itealing is a very common nee and is the occafion of 
many of their quarrels. 
n the two towne, or villages, which feemed to be 
only inhabited parts of the Sound, the number of pcan 
amounted to about see n 
ranges, rifing one abov 
front and the others. of fallen fize. 
and broa an ref Ge. upon the edges o 
and ae | by vine of pine bark. “Their i at the 
fides aid ends is {even or eight feet; but the back part is 
a little higher, fo that the planks flant forward, and thus 
are kept loofe that the ey m ofe to exclude rain, 
or feparated for letting in light and dilcharging the {moke. 
) 
T hei 
cups and bowls, and {mall 
two feer long, out of which they eat their food ; ; "ead aren 
of twigs, bags of matting, &c. ir fifhing implements 
and other artic'es are laid, without order, i in other parts of 
the houfe : their g but the 
mats i 
: “every thing within on without inking of fith, 
ae an e M ir houfes, notwithftand- 
ing their diforder and filth, are peer with images, 
ormed of trunks of large trees, four or five feet high, fet 
up fingly or by pairs at the upper end of the ae 
with He froat carved into a human face, the arms and hands 
cut out upon the fides, a = painted ; fo that they 
e general name of thefe 
a is ¢ ery in one of the hcufes were two 
others, denominated ¢ Mee kkoa,’? and Matfeet eta.” 
inferred. that they are reprefentatives a their aah or fym- 
bols of fome religious or | eeaoee object; but Cook 
fays, they were held in flight eftimation, as for a {mall quan- 
tity of iron or brafs, he could have pe urchafed all the gods 
(if the images were fuch) in the plac 
The chief employment of the men /feems to be that of 
fifhing, and killing land or fea animals for the fuftenance of 
their families ; and the 
fa&turing their woollen or flaxen garments, or in 1 
the fardines for drying he women alfo go in {mall canoes 
to gather Tt 
of 
c to the men: 
the women were always clothed, and behaved with the 
utmoft propriety. Thefe people fpend much time in their 
canoes in the fummer feafon ; eating and fleeping in them, 
a 
nd are eaten ra nother root refembles our liquorice, 
and another a fern-root. They have alfo other roots, which 
hey eat raw. It is their common practice to roaft or broil 
of boil They are as filthy in their mode of eating as 
they are in their perfons and their houfes. The troughs 
and platters in which they put their food do not feem to 
Every thing 
folid is torn to A dep with their teeth ; ca having no idea 
of cleanlinefs, eat the roots which they dig from the 
ground, eee pias off the foil that a to them. 
eir weapons are bows and arrows, flings, fpears, fhort 
— of bone, and a {mall pick-axe, like the Ameri- 
hempen itate. woollen garments have the ftrongeit 
refemblance to pais loth, oe they are ita larry 
with the ufe of the wool is taken 
ent animals, as fox and Goea lynx 
figures in thefe different garments are difpofed with great 
taite, and dyed of different colours. Their fondnefs for 
carving is manifefted in every thing that is made of wood. 
Small whole human figures, reprefentations of birds, fifth, 
land and fea-animals, models of thei r houfhold utenifils and 
well adapted to every ufeful purpo 
carry twenty people or more, a inne of onetree. Man 
